NDSU Softball Opens Summit League Play at Fort Wayne on April 1-2

Saturday, April 1

Fort Wayne, Ind.

12 p.m.

North Dakota State

Fort Wayne

Photo by: Stephen Brashear

NDSU Softball Opens Summit League Play at Fort Wayne on April 1-2

3/30/2017 2:14:00 PM | Softball

NDSU Softball Release.pdf

Saturday, April 1
BISON at Fort Wayne, 11 a.m. CT Live Stats I Live Video (PPV)
BISON at Fort Wayne, 1:30 p.m. CT Live Stats I Live Video (PPV)
Sunday, April 2
BISON at Fort Wayne, 10 a.m. CT Live Stats I Live Video (PPV)

North Dakota State (12-21) is scheduled to open Summit League play on the road at Fort Wayne (7-23) on April 1-2 ... NDSU and the Mastodons play an 11 a.m. CT doubleheader Saturday, April 1, at the Fort Wayne Softball Field, and close out the series with a 10 a.m. CT single-game Sunday, April 2 ... The Bison are 3-9 in away games, the 'Dons are 1-0 at home this season.

The Series
This will be the 42nd meeting between North Dakota State and Fort Wayne ... The Bison lead the series 29-12 ... NDSU won all three meetings against the Mastodons in Fargo last season.

Quickly Around the Horn
North Dakota State defeated Georgia Tech (G1, 3-25-17) in 12 innings, matching the longest game in program history ... The Bison are 1-1 in extra innings this season and stand 44-31 in extra innings under head coach Darren Mueller since 2002 ... North Dakota State is 57-51 in extra innings overall ... NDSU head coach Darren Mueller reached career win No. 550 with the 3-1 victory at Stetson University (3-10-17) ... Video highlight of catcher Tabby Heinz' throw to second and diving grab by Lauren Reimers to nab the runner against Abilene Christian (2-18-17) was nominated for #NCAATop10 and tweeted out by @NCAAsoftball ... Heinz has thrown out 12 of 31 baserunners attempting to steal this season ... In the NCAA statistics (March 27), individually, Jacquelyn Sertic is No.2 in strikeouts and No. 26 in shutouts ... Sophomore first baseman Zoe Stavrou leads the Bison with eight multi-hit games and six multi-RBI games ... Stavrou has reached base in 11 straight games and has a seven-game hitting streak ... Bre Beatty leads NDSU with eight two-out RBI, Julia Luciano is next with seven ... Vanessa Anderson's first career home run was a grand slam in the 7-3 win over the College of Charleston (2-26-17) ... Collectively, the Bison are batting .216 with a 3.32 earned run average and are fielding at .959 ... NDSU opponents are batting .259 with an 2.24 ERA and are fielding at .967 ... The Bison are averaging 2.79 runs scored per game, while opponents are averaging 4.03 ... The big inning is the fourth and sixth for NDSU with 19 runs scored ... NDSU went 17-0 during the Summit League 2016 regular season, becoming the first team since DePaul in 1999 to go unbeaten in league play ... The Bison reached 30 wins for the 10th straight season in 2016 ... The Bison have won 27 straight Summit League regular season games and 33 in a row including the past two Summit League postseason tournaments ... Last Summit League loss was against South Dakota (G2, 4-3-15).

NDSU-Georgia Tech Marathon Produces Records
North Dakota State freshman left fielder Stephanie Soriano tied the single-game record with five base hits and seven at-bats at Georgia Tech (G1, 3-25-17) ... The Bison won 8-6 in 12 innings ... Soriano became the fifth NDSU player collect five hits, the first since Melissa Chmielewski did it vs. Saint Mary's, Calif. (3-5-08) ... Junior right-hander Jacquelyn Sertic struck out a career-high 19 at Georgia Tech (G1, 3-25-17) to match the single-game record set by Whitney Johnson in eight-inning win against Toledo (2-9-12) ... Sertic became the third pitcher to throw 12 innings in a game, the first since Amber Garrett at Colorado State (4-26-06) ... NDSU tied the school record for the longest game for the fifth time in program history, the last time came against UMKC (4-22-12) ... NDSU junior catcher Tabby Heinz tied the school record with 21 putouts at Georgia Tech (G1, 3-25-17), matching Janice Thompson's effort vs. South Dakota State (4-6-84) ... Sophomore infielder Zoe Stavrou hit two home runs in the 6-0 win against Ball State (2-18-17) to tie the NDSU single-game record ... Stavrou tied the record for the second time in her career ... She is one of 14 players to tie the record on 25 occasions.

The Scientist's Research Nets Shutouts, Double-Figure Ks
North Dakota State junior right-hander Jacquelyn Sertic #TheScientist collected a pair of shutouts at the Ragin' Cajun Invitational on March 3-5 ... Sertic has four shutouts this season and 12 in her career ... Sertic has reached double-figure strikeouts six times this season and 12 times in her career ... Sertic has compiled a 44-27 record over three seasons.

Sertic, Reina Take Aim at NDSU Career Charts
On the NDSU career charts, junior right-hander Jacquelyn Sertic is 6th in strikeouts/7 IP (7.22 avg.) and strikeouts (479), 7th in batters faced (1981), 8th in appearances (92), 9th in wins (44), innings pitched (464.1), complete games (53) and shutouts (12), and 10th in opponent batting avg. (232) and games started (70) ... Senior catcher Alyssa Reina is 5th in runners caught stealing (33), 6th in slugging (.584), 7th in home runs (29), fielding (.991), chances (1159) and putouts (1069), and 9th in walks (77) ... Junior third baseman Julia Luciano is tied for 8th in times hit by pitch (9).

Bison Projected as Summit League Preseason Favorite
North Dakota State University was selected as The Summit League preseason softball favorites in a poll of the league's seven head coaches released Feb. 2 ... The Bison won their third consecutive league tournament title in 2016 ... NDSU collected six first-place votes ... The Bison, who have won the last three Summit League tournament championships and five consecutive regular season crowns, return six all-league selections, including pitcher of the year Jacquelyn Sertic.

Former Bison Moreland Playing Professionally in Italy
Former North Dakota State University all-region shortstop Logan Moreland is playing professionally for Collecchio Softball of the Italian League ... Moreland (Woodland, Calif./Woodland H.S.) is the fourth NDSU softball player to compete professionally overseas, and joins former all-region pitchers and teammates Krista Menke (Italy/Netherlands) and Whitney Johnson (Netherlands), along with former All-American catcher Shelly Rhein (Italy) ... Menke won the Brewskeez Sports Cafe International Athlete of the Year Award last season.

The Mueller File
The North Dakota State head coach is Darren Mueller (16th season, 23rd overall) ... Mueller has compiled a 554-303 record (.646) including 164-34 (.828) vs. Summit League competition (including tournament) ... Mueller reached career win No. 550 at Stetson (3-10-17) ... The Bison have had 10 straight 30-plus win season ... Mueller became the program's all-time winningest coach with the 4-1 victory at Western Illinois (4-16-11) ... North Dakota State has won seven Summit League tournament championships (2009-10-11-12, 2014-15-16) to advance to NCAA regional play ... The Bison won the NCAA Norman Regional in 2009 and advanced to the NCAA Super Regional at Arizona State ... NDSU has won six Summit League regular season crowns (2008, 2012-13-14-15-16) ... Rounding out the Bison staff are assistant coaches Gerice Olson and Beth Spoehr, along with graduate assistant manager Cheyenne Garcia and volunteer assistant Kendall Grimm ... The NDSU coaching staff earned the 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 Summit League Coaching Staff of the Year honors ... The NDSU staff earned 2009, 2015 and 2016 National Fastpitch Coaches Association Midwest Coaching Staff of the Year award ... Mueller was the 2006 and 2007 Division I Independent Coach of the Year.